The White Crow

In 1963, emergent 23-year-old ballet star Rudolph Nureyev (Oleg Ivenko) was in Paris as part of a cultural outreach by the Kirov. The hardscrabble circumstances of his youth--and the wary eye cast by the KGB as he tasted the temptations of Western culture--would push him to a fateful choice as his company continued to London. Evocative look at the early life of a master performer co-stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sergei Polunin, and Ralph Fiennes (who directed from David Hare’s script). 127 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.